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Officially on the losers bench as of April 8th. Past two days have been really bad with pain and nausea. They have me staying 1 more day in the hospital to make sure I'm not dehydrated

Officially on the losers bench as of April 8th. Past two days have been really bad with pain and nausea. They have me staying 1 more day in the hospital to make sure I'm not dehydrated

Just got the call have to be at the hospital at 10am tomorrow!!!!

Just got the call have to be at the hospital at 10am tomorrow!!!!

Just got the call have to be at the hospital at 10am tomorrow. So excited and nervous!!! :-)

Congrats and good luck!

Hey everyone I'm doing good on my pre op diet. my pre-op diet wasn't bad I just had to follow phase one of the South Beach Diet which was basically cutting out carbs, fruits, and sweets. I can eat meat and vegetables the healthy ones of course no fried foods so it's been pretty good. the day before surgery I can have a low carb high Protein Breakfast and then all liquids for the rest of the day until midnight. but I have to admit I did have a couple of last meals. my last meal was at TGIF on march 27th I had the baby back ribs , shrimp and fries . that was supposed to be my farewell dinner but then the next day I had Chinese and the next day I started on my actual phase 1 so I had 2 farewell meals but like I said I can eat steak , burger , fish baked chicken so I'm doing pretty good not missing much yet my fear is fear after the surgery worrying about if I can get enough protein in. I plan on packing my bag for the hospital tomorrow.

Woohoo! All scheduled for the 21st! Got my approval in 1 day. Pre op blood work on the 10th and start my liquid diet on the 11th. Omg this is really happening!

I get sleeved today so excited!

Hello all! I'm new on here and will be getting sleeved April 9th in Pennsylvania. This has been a long journey and can't wait to get on the losers bench!!!

Hello all! I'm new on here and will be getting sleeved April 9th in Pennsylvania. This has been a long journey and can't wait to get on the losers bench!!!

April 9th is my sleeve dateeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee hoohoo

Hello all -
I know several of us are hitting our 1 month mark this week. Mine is today.
The body is an incredible thing, truly. It's a healing machine quite frankly.
At one and two weeks out:
-you wonder what you have done to yourself and you are pretty sure you will never feel quite normal again
-you can't imagine yourself ever sleeping anywhere but the living room recliner
-the thought of driving or going back to work seems like an unrealistic commitment you made Way Back Before Surgery
-you can get in so little Water and Protein that it dawns on you that THESE are the weeks that will cause Hair loss several months from now
-you learn what "sliming" is (ewwww)
-MyFitnessPal tells you repeatedly: "You are getting too few calories. If every day were like today, you would be DEAD in 5 weeks."
At three weeks out:
-you feel better but not really there yet
-you need extra naps on the weekend
-getting in your water and protein can be done with the effort of a full time job
-you have a strange painful stitch in your side that you've resigned yourself to bravely live with the rest of your life
-you accidentally sleep all night with the heating pad on your largest incision site on its highest setting
-you walk 20 minutes on the treadmill and then come onto this site and disbelievingly post, "WHEN did they say I should start exercising????"
-your body decides you must be on a grueling episode of Survivor and goes into starvation mode yielding the world's most devastating weight loss stall prompting you to decide that you are a failure and did this all for NOTHING
At four weeks out:
-you sleep in your own bed in whatever position you want
-the fire-hazardous heating pad gets put away
-you walk 2+ miles at lunch and think maybe you could have done more
-you have enough energy to really start cleaning the house again and get totally aggravated at hubby and kids for how little they managed to do for the past month
-you randomly feel happy, mad, silly, sad as hormones and emotions take their toll
-you have to pack up the first set of clothes which are now too big
-you feel healthy....dare I say...normal?
Yep, the first month is kind of amazing.

Yes joyann45 let's keep in touch. I'm excited nervous then at times am like please just get here already. Today I have my nutrition class where they go over what we can and cannot have surgery and I find out about my pre-op diet I have to start on Monday. Everyone have a wonderful weekend April is almost here!!!

i was gonna do the body by vi shakes during my pre-op week!! EEEK!! april will be here in noooo time yall. us april sleevers MUST stay in contact with results

Joyann45 I'm April 8th also. It seems to be coming so quick!!! Excited :-)

Got the call yesterday and my surgery date got pushed up 1 day till April 8th and they gave me a time to be at the hospital it became so much more real!!! I still haven't told my mom yet I plan to do that in a few weeks. April seemed so far awash but now that's it's March I have a feeling this time is going to fly by. I'm excited and nervous all at the same time!!! :-)

I'm scheduled for April 9th in Pennsylvania

I'm scheduled for April 9th in Pennsylvania